Drinking tea and talking trash — Oregon Coast TODAY

Our oceans are full of plastic. Much of it goes through rivers into the sea. How far does our garbage travel?

Drinking tea and talking trash — Oregon Coast TODAY

There will be plenty of trash talk at the Thursday, April 17, Coastal Arts Guild Tea and Talk, when Rena Ekmanis discusses her mosaics made from plastic marine debris.Ekmanis will display her mosaics and talk about the rare and endangered ocean animals that are her favorite subjects to study and paint. A multidisciplinary artist and science illustrator, Ekmanis finds inspiration in the magic, beauty and mysteries of nature. The ocean is the plac…

Schools participate, and Rotary supports schools with educational suitcases It's such a big concern, especially for young people: the plastic flood that defiles the world's oceans, kills animals and dumps the land – something has to be done about it! Rotary International was 120 years old this year and is doing something about it worldwide and specifically under the slogan "End Plastic Soup". The nine Rotary clubs from the Untermain had therefor…